Thursday, February 26, 2009

Congratulations, Stacy!! You are the winner of the t-shirt giveaway!! Instead of using an online random # picker, we did this one the old fashioned way. Leila and I put the entries in a bowl and Leila picked the winning name.

Congratulations, Stacy!! I'll contact you today to get your address and t-shirt size. Thanks everyone for playing. Hop on over to Gwen's blog if you still want a shirt. You'll be helping an amazing woman raise money for two future adoptions and getting a great t-shirt at the same time!

In addition to running my own photography business, I am a proud mother to three beautiful girls that were born in my heart, and a wife to my wonderful husband of 17 years. We adopted Leila from Moscow, Russia at 32-months old and Mia from Jiangsu Province, China at 13-months old. We thought we were done at two, until God led us on another journey to China - this time to bring home our 11-year old daughter, Kara Da Xin in July 2009. I am also the proud Aunt of two nephews, born in Guatemala, and a niece, born in China. I am so thankful to our Heavenly Father for blessing our family with these amazing children.

This is a very special necklace I had made to keep my children close to my heart. On the left, it says "family" in Russian. On the right, it says, "mother and daughter joined at the heart" in Chinese. I love this piece of jewelry and how it always reminds me of our journey to bring home our three precious girls.